Mario Kart 8 is already one of the best-selling Wii U games of all time, and racers who visit the Nintendo Gaming Lounge will be able to compete in local Mario Kart 8 competitions. (Photo: Business Wire)

REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nintendo is heading to Comic-Con in San Diego to bring a collection of
fun games and engaging events directly to fans. Visitors will be able to
enjoy hands-on time with Super
Smash Bros. for both Wii
U and Nintendo
3DS, as well as additional upcoming 2014 games like Hyrule
Warriors, Bayonetta
2 and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. Add to this an
exciting multiday stream of live game-play challenges on the Nintendo
Twitch channel and a host of other fun activities, and you have
Nintendo’s biggest presence at Comic-Con ever.

“Nintendo fans are going to have a great time with what we have planned
for San Diego Comic-Con this year, whether they are attending the event
or watching at home from across the country,” said Scott Moffitt,
Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing.
“From first hands-on opportunities to tournaments and a fun live stream,
we want to make sure that everyone has a great time experiencing
Nintendo at the show.”

Nintendo’s hub at San Diego Comic-Con will be located at the Nintendo
Gaming Lounge on the first floor of the Marriott Marquis & Marina hotel,
an area open to the general public, so even fans who don’t have a
Comic-Con badge can get in on the fun. The playable games scheduled to
appear include:

Visitors to the Nintendo Gaming Lounge will also be able to view a
display of amiibo, figures modeled after Nintendo characters that will
interact with compatible Wii U and Nintendo 3DS games. A special area
themed after Tomodachi Life will also be available, where
visitors can recharge their minds, bodies and Nintendo 3DS systems. In
addition to the Nintendo Gaming Lounge, Nintendo will have a booth at
the San Diego Convention Center dedicated entirely to Super Smash
Bros. for Nintendo 3DS.

On July 25 and July 26, Nintendo will stream Nintendo Challenge Live, a
stage show hosted from the Nintendo Gaming Lounge that features intense
tournament competition and awesome game-play challenges from some of the
hottest upcoming games on Nintendo platforms. Fans can open their
browsers to http://www.twitch.tv/nintendo
to catch all of the action and stick around for hours to soak in all the
festivities.

Nintendo will be hosting its first-ever tournament for the Super
Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS game. Tournament slots are limited for
the one-day event, and fans will be able to sign up the day of the event
on a first-come, first-served basis. The full tournament will be
streamed at http://www.twitch.tv/nintendo.
The tournament will be conducted using the E3 version of the game. This
version represents a game still in development and may not represent the
final quality and balance of the game, which launches on Oct. 3.

Mario Kart 8 is already one of the best-selling Wii U games of
all time, and the love for the game and franchise will be
well-represented at Comic-Con. Racers who visit the Nintendo Gaming
Lounge will be able to compete in local Mario Kart 8
competitions. The bracket-style competitions will pit 32 players against
each other. The winner of each local competition will then be invited to
take on racers around the world using the online tournament feature of Mario
Kart 8. Players at home can join the online tournaments with a
chance to face off against the local champions. The online tournament
codes and schedule will be announced via Nintendo’s social media
channels in the future.

Super Smash Bros. and Mario Kart 8 aren’t the only
franchises with unique activities at Comic-Con. Bayonetta fans
will want to make sure they mark their calendars for a screening of the
new animated film Bayonetta: Bloody Fate from FUNimation
Entertainment. The stylized animated movie follows the powerful witch
Bayonetta as she battles the forces of heaven to regain her memory. The
feature film will screen Friday, July 25, at 9:35 p.m. PT in Marriott
Hall Room 4 at the Marriott Marquis & Marina hotel. (A San Diego
Comic-Con badge is required for entry.)

The Nintendo Gaming Lounge is located in the San Diego Ballroom on the
first floor of the Marriott Marquis & Marina hotel at 333 W. Harbor
Drive, San Diego, CA, 92101. The Nintendo Gaming Lounge will be open to
the public from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. PT Thursday, July 24, to Saturday, July
26, and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. PT Sunday, July 27. The Nintendo booth (No. 235)
is located at the San Diego Convention Center at 111 W. Harbor Drive,
San Diego, CA, 92101.

About Nintendo: The worldwide pioneer in the creation of
interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan,
manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii U™
and Wii™ home consoles, and Nintendo 3DS™ and
Nintendo DS™ families of portable systems. Since 1983, when
it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo has
sold more than 4.2 billion video games and more than 670 million
hardware units globally, including the current-generation Wii U,
Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL, as well as the Game Boy™,
Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi™ and Nintendo DSi
XL™, Super NES™, Nintendo 64™, Nintendo
GameCube™ and Wii systems. It has also created industry icons
that have become well-known, household names such as Mario™,
Donkey Kong™, Metroid™, Zelda™ and
Pokémon™. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America
Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo’s
operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information about
Nintendo, please visit the company’s website at http://www.nintendo.com.

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